Opening in Japan later this year via Warner Bros., the film is set in Okayama prefecture in 2020, just before the Tokyo Olympics. Kamiyama describes the story as one of a father and daughter that is close to his personal feelings. Take a look:

I.G Port’s new anime studio subsidiary Signal.MD will animate the film as its first anime feature project. Kamiyama is directing the film, as well as penning the script. Satoko Morikawa (The Cat Returns, Eden Of The East) will design the characters, and Shigeto Toyama (Heroman) is in charge of mechanical design.

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Zhao said with her Bass Reeves biopic, she’ll direct a more traditional cast like she did with her first-timers: “You can work with an actor in a certain way, you can create an environment like Terrence Malick has always done.”